DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DETECTING THE ENERGY QUANTITY IN THE CHARGING STATION FOR AN ELECTRIC VEHICLE

• US 20120123710A1
• Filed: 12/14/2011
• Published: 05/17/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 06/22/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: innogy SE (E.ON SE)
• Original Assignee: RWE AG
• Inventors: Gaul, Armn, Wiedemann, Thomas
• Application Number:
  US13/326,019
• Publication Number:
  US 20120123710A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 702/61
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/547 Voltage
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/549 Current
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/70 Interactions with external data bases, e.g. traffic centres
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/14 Conductive energy transfer
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/305 Communication interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/665 Methods related to measuring, billing or payment
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/70 Energy storage systems for electromobility, e.g. batteries
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/7072 Electromobility specific charging systems or methods for batteries, ultracapacitors, supercapacitors or double-layer capacitors
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/72 Electric energy management in electromobility
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 90/12 Electric charging stations
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 90/14 Plug-in electric vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 90/16 Information or communication technologies improving the operation of electric vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 90/167 Systems integrating technologies related to power network operation and communication or information technologies for supporting the interoperability of electric or hybrid vehicles, i.e. smartgrids as interface for battery charging of electric vehicles [EV] or hybrid vehicles [HEV]
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 30/14 Details associated with the interoperability, e.g. vehicle recognition, authentication, identification or billing

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method and a device for detecting electrical energy delivered to an electric vehicle. To this end, the following steps are provided: connecting the electric vehicle to a charging station for obtaining electrical energy provided on a charging cable, feeding the desired energy quantity into a battery of the electric vehicle during a desired charging period, detecting of at least one electrical value required for the calculation of the energy quantity by an energy quantity meter and output of the at least one electrical value, required by the energy quantity meter for the calculation of the energy quantity, to a monitoring device for the operational monitoring of the charging station.

Claims

1. A method for determining a delivered energy quantity during the charging of electric vehicles, comprising:

connecting an electric vehicle to a charging station for obtaining electrical energy provided on a charging cable;

feeding the desired energy quantity into a battery of the electric vehicle during a desired charging period;

detecting of at least one electrical value required for the calculation of the energy quantity by an energy quantity meter;

output of the calculated energy quantity; and

output of the at least one electrical value, required by the energy quantity meter for the calculation of the energy quantity, to a monitoring device for the operational monitoring of the charging station.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the output of the at least one electrical value, required for the calculation of the energy quantity, to a monitoring device takes place for conduction current monitoring of the charging station.

3. A device for determining a delivered electrical energy quantity when charging electric vehicles in a charging station, comprising:

a detection means for detecting the electrical values applied in the charging circuit of an energy supply network, particularly the electric voltage and the electric current;

a calculation means for calculating the energy quantity from at least one of the detected electrical values;

a first output unit for the calculated energy quantity; and

a further output unit for the output of at least one further electrical value to a monitoring device for operational monitoring of the charging station.

4. The device according to claim 3, wherein the at least one electrical value required for the calculation of the energy quantity is the phase current.

5. The device according to claim 3, wherein the at least one electrical value required for the calculation of the energy quantity is the phase voltage.

6. The device according to claim 3, wherein the at least one electrical value required for the calculation of the energy quantity is the real power assigned to the respective phase.

7. The device according to claim 3, wherein the monitoring device contains a protection device, particularly for safeguarding the phase current.

8. The device according to claim 3, wherein the further output unit is constructed to output the at least one further electrical value to the monitoring device via a data interface.

9. The device according to claim 8, wherein the data interface is constructed together with an interface unit for the first output means for the calculated energy quantity.